Deuteronomy 4:25-31

New American Standard Bible

²⁵ “When you father children and have ^[a]grandchildren, and you grow old in the land, and you ^(A)act corruptly, and ^(B)make ^[b]an idol in the form of anything, and ^(C)do what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God to provoke Him to anger, ²⁶ I ^(D)call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today, that you will ^(E)certainly perish quickly from the land where you are going over the Jordan to take possession of it. You will not ^[c]live long on it, but will be utterly destroyed. ²⁷ The Lord will ^(F)scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord drives you. ^28 (G)There you will serve gods, the work of human hands, ^(H)wood and stone, ^(I)which neither see nor hear, nor eat nor smell anything. ^29 (J)But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him ^(K)with all your heart and all your soul. ³⁰ When you ^(L)are in distress and all these things happen to you, ^(M)in the latter days ^(N)you will return to the Lord your God and listen to His voice. ³¹ For the Lord your God is a ^(O)compassionate God; ^(P)He will not abandon you nor ^(Q)destroy you, nor ^(R)forget the covenant with your fathers which He swore to them.